Sydney: Of all the strange things in a very unusual conversation between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull, the internet has crowned just one to be today’s meme-in-chief.
A newly published transcript of the phone call between the US president and the Australian prime minister shows the pair discussing a deal made under the Obama administration to resettle to the US more than 1,000 refugees currently held in Australia’s offshore detention centres.
It’s a deal that Trump is not happy with and he made it clear during what was an awkward and combative phone conversation back in January.
Trump said the refugees — who are mostly from Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan — would go on to be the next Boston bombers, which Turnbull pointed out was unlikely since the Boston bombers came from Russia.
No matter, Trump was still very displeased.
“I hate taking these people. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.”
Who are the “local milk people”?, Twitter collectively wondered.
Are they deliverers of milk or dairy farmers? Is he old enough to remember the era when they’d leave a pint on the doorstep in those glass bottles with the foil lids?
Do they still exist in New York?
When was the last time he bought milk? (He probably has milk people to do it for him.) We may never know, but Twitter could at least craft it into a decent meme in the meantime.
